Water-regulating device for bath-tubs.



PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904.

S. E. ROBINSON WATER REGULATING DEVICE FOR BATH TUBS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 4, 1902,

no MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

SYLVANUS EDWARD'ROBINSON, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

WATER-REGULATING DEVICE FOR BATH-TUBS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,662, dated A gust 16, 1904.

Application filed September 4, 1902. Serial No. 122,135. (No model.)

- facility water may be discharged directly into the bath-tub or may at the election of the user be discharged into a hose or spraying device.

To attain the object stated, the invention consists in a bath-tub attachment constructed as hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which,

Figure l is a vertical sectional view of an attachment embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar View of a slightly-different form thereof, and Fig. 3 is a plan View of an element of the attachment.

In the said drawings the reference-letter A designates a hollow cap provided with a screw-' threaded entrance-opening 6, adapted to be connected with the intake of a supply-pipe, (not shown,) whereby said hollow cap is operatively connected with the supply-pipe to receive the discharge thereof. a

The reference-letter d designates an outlet formed in the periphery of the hollow cap A and disposed to direct the water downwardly into the bath-tub, and the attachment will be used in this manner when it is intended to fill the bath-tub with water, as distinguished from discharging water into a spraying device.

The cap A is provided with a circular flange 6, extending beyond the periphery of the cap proper and screw-threaded, as at e, on its edge. An auxiliary hollow cap H, adapted and intended for use in connection with a hose and spray device, is screw-threaded at its attaching end to engage with the screw threaded flange of the cap A. This cap H is provided centrally with a nozzle K, formed and adapted for connection with a hose, (not shown,) so that when the cap H is attached to the flange of the cap A the water instead of being discharged into the bath-tub through the peripheral opening 05 will pass through the passage W between the caps and through the nozzle K into the hose, from which it may be sprayed in the form of a shower, whereby the user may have a shower-bath.

It will thus be seen that with great facility by reason of the novel and simple construction and arrangement and interrelation of parts composing my invention a user may discharge the water directly into the bath-tub for a plunge or other similar bath or may by connecting the hollow cap H with the cap A andv attaching the hose and spraying device to the nozzle thereof have a shower-bath.

In Fig. 2 of the drawings a slightly-different form of the invention is shown wherein the circular flange 6, Fig. 1, is continued into the circularly-disposed flange it, provided with screw-threads c', adapted to have screwthreaded engagement with the cap H. The mode of operation and manner of utilizing this slightly-different form are the same as in the case of the form hereinbefore described,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a bath-tub attachment, a hollow cap' proximately equal to the height of said hollow cap, and a second hollow cap having a nozzle, said second hollow cap being screwed upon the circular flange of said first-mentioned cap.

2. In a bath-tub attachment, a hollow cap having an outlet in its periphery and a circular flange extending beyond the periphery of the cap, and screw-threaded on its end, said hollow cap being provided on its rear side with a threaded perforation for attaching the cap to the intake of a bath-tub and a second hollow cap interiorly threaded for attachment to said threaded flange and provided centrally with a nozzle, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SYLVANUS EDWARD ROBINSON.

Witnesses:

M. BROEMEL, HARRIE HOLEMAN. 

